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him in Gujarat together with MS. F. It is a well written manuscript on paper, consisting of 33 leaves, with 15 lines of about 47 akṣara each. It is not dated, but to judge from its appearance, it probably belongs to the 16th century. The vowels e and o are uniformly side-marked. It is a collective manuskript, containing commentaries to the following three consecutive Angas, the seventh, Upasakadasha, (leaves 1236), the eighth, Antekṛiddasha (1. 23b-31a), and the nineth, Anuttaraupapatikadashā (1. 31a-33). At the end1 it is stated, that the whole of this collective commentary was written by Abhayadeva, and that it contains 1,300 grantha. It is written in a small hand, and not quite carefully. It shows a very remarkable agreement with MS. a, all the readings, and even the clerical errors of which it reproduces, It would though it adds here and there blunders of its own. almost seem as if MS. f had been copied from MS. a.
h-MS., belonging to the Library of the "Jain Association of India," and received through the kindness of W. Virchand Raghavji Gaudhi, the Honorary Secretary of that Association. It is a clearly written and fairly accurate manuscript on paper, consisting of 23 leaves, with 15 lines of about 46 akṣara each. It is dated Samvat 1673 (= 16167 A. D.), Vaishakha, badi, 7th. On the margin it is called Upāsakadashāmgādi Vritti, indicating thereby that it is only the commencement of a collective commentary. The MS., however, breaks off at the end of the commentary to the Upasakadasha. On the whole, it agrees with MS. a rather than with MS. c; but occasionally it has readings of its own; see the end of its comment to § 141.
Of these authorities for the commentary, I have been only able to use MS. a and the print e for the whole of the work. MS. c I had to return to its owner after editing the first chapter, when I received MS. f. At the time of my receiving
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1 The colophon reads exactly as given in the Calcutta print, and quoted in Professor Weber's Catalogue of the Berlin MSS., p. 507.
